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What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com

What makes our generation so growth-retarded, compared to baby boomers? Too many choices and nothing to choose from? Why the lack of a sense of urgency? What, we suddenly live forever? It's really troubling, our exhibitionist voyeurism and self-centeredness, together with eternal optimism and lack of accountability. Sure, our brains may still be maturing and we may enjoy "looking for ourselves," but isn't this kind of decadence one step away from terminal decline? Hard to be bullish on such a phenomenon. That said, apparently we're not so different from our parents, after all, certainly not for long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine


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Yuri Kruman